Literary companions, book reviews and guides

The first book to address everyone who relishes reading Proust and wants to know more about how his writing works.

A razor-sharp and achingly funny memoir of the men and movies that shaped one woman's life.

In her third novel, acclaimed author of 'In Search of Adam' and 'Black Boxes' Caroline Smailes draws upon her own family history for a remarkable and unforgettable story of loss and redemption.

A hilarious assortment of the weirdest and wackiest tales ever to come out of the classroom - and they're all true.

The complete and comprehensive way to support your studies and assessments in 2021 and exams in 2022.

The complete and comprehensive way to support your studies and assessments in 2021 and exams in 2022.

'Bird-watchers are tense, competitive, selfish, shifty, dishonest, distrusting, boorish, pedantic, unsentimental, arrogant and - above all - envious'.

The complete and comprehensive way to support your studies and assessments in 2021 and exams in 2022.

The complete and comprehensive way to support your studies and assessments in 2021 and exams in 2022.

Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-FictionLonglisted for the Orwell Prize for Political WritingThe Ministry of Truth charts the life of George Orwell's 1984, one of the most influential books of the twentieth century and a work that is ever more relevant in this tumultuous era of 'fake news' and 'alternative facts'.

A rollicking collection of stories featuring the craziest, daftest and most outrageous monarchs the world has ever known.

The complete and comprehensive way to support your studies and assessments in 2021 and exams in 2022.

The complete and comprehensive way to support your studies and assessments in 2021 and exams in 2022.

A detailed look at the British world of science fiction in the 1950s.